This gives millions of Flash developers the chance to distribute their applications and games through Apple’s App Store; not to mention that Apple is getting all of these people added to their already huge list of developers overnight.

This is a very smart move from both Adobe and Apple. In my opinion, Adobe actually needed something like this to keep developers from moving to other technologies and platforms, and  Apple is getting all these new developers that come from a long lasting and well established community who have been working on the Flash platform for years.

Technically speaking, my guess is that Adobe already has a flash player running on the iphone, but since they cannot distribute it as a browser plug-in, they instead chose to give developers the option to wrap their SWF applications into this Flash Player for iphone. This is pretty much how projectors work actually. But that’s just my guess, of course.

Be sure to checkout the video here:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

This little Air application will let you drag and drop an FLV file and it will parse the file in binary and show you the contents of the FLV tags for analysis. This is a pretty old application I did when I was working at Di-f, but I figured I should revise it since I’ve using it a lot lately. So, I did some changes and packaged this as an air application for distribution.

Just a couple of notes:

• This only works with standard FLV formats, I haven’t tested this with F4V, but my guess is that the format is different. I will update the app when I get a chance.
• You need to DRAG and DROP an FLV file from your desktop in order for it to work
• The longer the FLV, the slower it may get. Keep that in mind

As always, here are the source files if you need to check out the code.

flvReader.zip

File size: 877 Kb

Click on the install button below:

I just uploaded my first Animation Demo Reel. Hit the Read More link to check it out and be sure to drop a comment or two!

This is a quick tutorial with an applescript to output your trace callbacks into the terminal.
Since I’ve been doing a lot of flash lately, I was looking for a decent way to get all my trace callbacks displayed for debugging. Now, if you only use firefox there is the excellent flashTracer plugin, but what if you use other browsers like safari? or even when you develop air application or publish to the desktop?

That’s why I made this little applescript that will open a terminal window and show you a live feed of the flash player log file, flashLog.txt.

You can grab the files here:

FlashTrace.zip

File size: 32 Kb

Inside the zip you will find FlashTrace.app, which triggers the script. You can even drag this app to your dock for quick launching.

You dont need the actual applescript file, but I included it anyways in case you need to change something. This works with Flash Player 10 on mac OS X

Remember, in order for this to work you must do the following:

• Install the debugger version of Flash Player 10 from here
• In Finder, go to your home folder, and create a new file called mm.cfg (be sure that the extension is actually .cfg).
• Open it with TextEdit or any text editor and type the following:

TraceOutPutFileName=/Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs/flashlog.txt
ErrorReportingEnable=1
TraceOutputFileEnable=1
MaxWarnings=100   

• In the above, be sure to change “your_username” and replace it with you actual mac username, this is the same as you home folder’s name.
• Using finder, open your home folder and navigate to Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs/
• If you dont see a file called flashlog.txt, just create it and name it like that.
• Close down all your browser windows and Flash/Flex IDE and restart.

This is just the basic setup to get the flash player to actually output all the debugging info into flashlog.txt.

Now just open up flashTrace.app and you should see  terminal window pop up. Try it out by running any flash content and you’ll see the terminal window fill up with useful information, as well as all your TRACE() callbacks

Genaro

Thats what Mugato says to his clerk on the film Zoolander. I found the audio clip on the 11 Second club website for a prior competition. I will be using the audio file for my final project in my 2D animation class. I really wanted to give it a shot at the current competition, but the current audio file only has one character talking and I need 2. I drew the concept for the characters I used. I drew this with a cintiq 12wx straight in photoshop… nice!

Hello! This is my last assignment for my 3d effects class. The class is basically about dynamics in maya. This assignment consisted in creating a rainy night scene, and it was a team effort. The scene contains dynamic cloth using soft bodies, rain particles and a dynamic pond which reacts to the rain particles that collide with it. When a collision occurs between the rain particles and the pond’s surface, a radial field is triggered at that point affecting the pond’s surface. I handled the dynamics, the lighting and the rendering. The rest of the team handled concept, modeling and texturing.

This scene was rendered with maya software.

Credits go to: Ryan Albertson, Ali Camacho, Roncarlo Erasmo, and me =)

Mental ray is so cool. On feature that I love is the Physical Sun and Sky node. Its a neat light rig that accurately recreates a sun and sky. That, combined with Final Gather, makes it a really good choice when it comes to hassle-free outdoor lighting.

There is only one little problem, and that is that textures appear to be washed out. I’m still trying to find the solution to this, but if anyone has an idea, let me know =)

I created this image last quarter as part of an assignment for school. I tried to portray a situation which all the peps in the classroom would be familiar with. After all, this stuff has happened to us all hehe. Modeled and textured in Maya, and redered using the Maya Software Renderer.

I’m excited!, this is my first 2D lipsynch and I think it turned out pretty well for a first pass. I think the animation is one or two frames off from the audio at the last part, but that’s easy to correct. I’m still planning to go back, refine and clean the animation on this one. Also, this animation was done in flash with a wacom tablet. I know flash pretty well but never did traditional animation on it, and I must say it kicks ass!. Its sooo fast and functional, I dont know if I’ll do paper again =)

This is my first attempt at traditional 2d animation with sound. I got into some trouble because a lot of the beats fell inbetween frames (I was trying to animate on two’s). Then I figured it was better to just do it all on ones.